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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091704615.html
A Deadly Palestinian Divide
[Washington Post] Howard Schneider - The PA security officials who arrested Haytham Amr in June said they only wanted to "borrow him" for questioning about his ties to the Islamist Hamas movement, Amr's father said. Three days later he was dead from internal injuries. There have been at least four deaths this year that human rights groups say may be linked to mistreatment in detention facilities run by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and at least three in facilities in Hamas-ruled Gaza. The prison deaths pose a particular challenge for the U.S.-backed administration of Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad, who must show they can maintain security without resorting to methods that erode their political standing.